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You could run Cygwin which is Linux on Windows, or run VMWare which will allow you to install Linux in Windows or you could find one of the many distros that install in Windows on www.distrowatch.com
Distribution: slackware 9.1, redhat 9.0, PHLAK, SuSE 9.0Pro windows XP (HEAVILY MODIFIED)
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I dont want to have to download a new linux distro or anything big im on dailup and it takes a long time i just need an emulator that will run my current linux slackware 9.1 partition while windows is running
Only VMWare can really do what you want and it costs money. I personally don't see the point in doing it. Many of the linux apps are crossplatform anyway.
It is cheaper to use one of the wine's to run some windows apps under linux - like wine, crossover and/or winex.
Distribution: slackware 9.1, redhat 9.0, PHLAK, SuSE 9.0Pro windows XP (HEAVILY MODIFIED)
Posts: 111
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im on slack ware and apparently you have to manually install and its giving me problems if i could get wine working i wouldnt even need my windows partition
the error i get when i try to copy the wine files to the folders on my hd it sais "file present directory was expected" or something like that if you think you can help me il get you the right message
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